Philips' new "triple-mode" monitors go all the way down to 720p for maximum speed
From QHD-level pixel count to extreme refresh rates, Philips' new monitors have it all
Samsung will earn more profit in 2026 than it did over the previous 40 years combined thanks to the AI boom
Samsung is maximizing profit in the AI era
SpaceX intentionally burned up 260 Starlink satellites in the last six months, with hundreds more set to follow
As Starlink grows toward 42,000 satellites, its constant deorbiting is raising unanswered questions
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
One of Windows' most hated features just helped catch a 19-year-old hacker
Using a VPN couldn't save him
The Supreme Court just ruled that police need a warrant to use phone location data
A 6-3 ruling says geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Nvidia's RTX 3060 returns to store shelves at its original 2021 price
The five-year-old Ampere card is back as the memory crisis continues
Researchers built a tiny diving suit for cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater
The goal is to help search-and-rescue teams reach flooded rubble, drains, and narrow gaps robots can't access
Sony clarifies that it will still make PlayStation discs after 2028, just not for new games
Publishers will be able to reorder existing disc releases, but post-2028 games are still going digital-only
Tesla launches a longer six-seat Model Y to replace the Model X for many buyers
The Model Y Long Wheelbase adds a third row, captain chairs, and 325 miles of range
Intel Nova Lake-S midrange CPUs could be bringing AMD's X3D cache trick to more affordable chips
Leaked Core Ultra 5 400S specs reveal 22-core Nova Lake-S chips with up to 144MB of cache
Bending Spoons bought Vimeo, Evernote, and AOL instead of chasing AI, it just had a $25.7 billion IPO
Can old Internet brands still make billions?
Google is testing a webcam CAPTCHA that scans your hand, but it's already been bypassed using a photo
The feature, called "hand gesture verification," requires webcam access just to prove you're not a bot
Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work
Lenovo laptops are now shipping with YMTC SSDs, a sign of Chinese NAND entering the mainstream
Chinese-made SSDs are starting to appear in ordinary laptops
The latest Microsoft Office 2024 Pro suite is now $55 in this limited-time deal
Unlock your productivity with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and Outlook
The US now has three microreactors running – and data centers are watching closely
DOE-backed microreactors from Deployable, Antares, and Valar Atomics have now all reached criticality
SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said "we are not developing a phone"
AI device resembles a slim smartphone powered by a Snapdragon processor
Meta's Pocket app lets you vibe-code games with zero coding knowledge
A TikTok-style app for AI-generated mini games
Amazon's satellite internet service is finally ready for real users – sort of
Amazon Leo begins commercial rollout with 396 satellites, targeting Starlink's early 2020 beta performance
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PRIVACY WOES
License plate cameras are scanning 20 billion vehicles a month
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END OF AN ERA
Sony will stop making physical PlayStation games come 2028
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WTF
The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy
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BAD TIMING
Cinder City is the first game to recommend 64GB of RAM
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"LOOP ENGINEERING"
The next step in AI coding isn't a better prompt, it's a system that prompts itself
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FUTUROLOGY
PlayStation 6 bill of materials nears $1,000 as RAM shortages worsen
Microsoft reverses stance and adds Google account sign-in to Edge browser
The feature enables faster sign-ins and data syncing across devices for users of Google's ecosystem
Jensen Huang's signed leather jacket could sell for up to $60,000 at charity auction
The auction estimate puts Huang's jacket in the same ballpark as some Nvidia AI hardware
In brief: These days Jensen Huang is better known for turning Nvidia from a beloved gaming company into a somewhat disliked AI supercorporation. But he used to get a lot of attention for his leather jacket. Now, one of those famed items of clothing is going up for auction, and it's expected to raise $40,000 to $60,000 – for charity, of course.
US homeowners installed a record amount of battery storage this year, and it's reshaping the grid
Home batteries are becoming a serious power source for utilities and AI data centers
In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
A long, long time ago, desktop PCs used to have a Turbo button alongside Power and Reset.
Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home
Investigators say the Model 3 reached 73 mph in a residential neighborhood
iFixit is creating a repairability scoring standard for US electronics
A voluntary standard could give shoppers and lawmakers a clearer way to judge how fixable a device really is
Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
The organization representing game publishers helped kill a preservation bill. Now it's being blamed for pushing archivists toward piracy
Singapore charges two people over a scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China through a $42 million property deal
Singapore accounts for 28% of Nvidia's revenue but only 1% of its GPU shipments
Concorde-style supersonic flights could return to the US, as long as they're quiet enough
FAA proposal would replace the decades-old ban with a noise-based standard
A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents
Project Aion imagines a lightweight, web-based Windows shell where Copilot replaces the Start Menu and Taskbar
Someone finally built a working Game Boy emulator for E-ink screens
This modder proves an old dev board can run 30-year-old games at full speed
Meta is using old DDR4 memory in DDR5-only AI servers to save on hardware costs
Cutting corners: Faced with rising memory costs, Meta says it is reusing old DDR4 RAM in its servers rather than buying new hardware. The company revealed this week that it is repurposing DDR4 memory from decommissioned servers into its new DDR5-only machines, using a custom CXL ASIC that avoids the compatibility issues and major latency penalties that typically come with mixing memory generations. The design reportedly cuts AI inference server count by up to 25% and reduces job-restart and fragmentation overhead by 33%.
A new attack uses a BioShock-style puzzle to convince AI browsers they're not in the real world
Researchers found a way to trick AI browsers into "forgetting" safety rules
OpenAI may give the US government a 5% stake, following Trump's Intel playbook
Altman frames it as a national investment in AI, not just a regulatory truce
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